lino tips


About moving multiple stickies at once
By holding down Shift key and moving a sticky, stickies over or under the sticky move together. If you release sticky on a canvas thumbnail on dock, stickies moved together will be transfered.

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About arranging sticky to the rear
When stickies are over another, you can arrange one of the stickies to the rear. For windows, hold down Alt key and click on the sticky. For Mac, hold down Option key and click on the sticky.

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How can I move a sticky to another canvas?
Drag the sticky and drop it to the canvas on the Dock.

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How can I move a sticky to the invisible part of the canvas?
Drag the sticky and drop it to the navigator.

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Can I use lino with my friends?
Yes, surely you can! Once you create a group and invite your friends to it, you can share canvases and stickies with them.

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Can I subscribe to contents of posted stickies using RSS reader?
Yes. Each canvas is RSS compatible and contents of its posted stickies can be output via RSS. You can subscribe to contents of posted stickies on each canvas by clicking a RSS button on your browser while the desired canvas is displayed on your browser.

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Can I subscribe to contents of stickies with due dates using Google Calendar?
Yes. To subscribe to the information, visit Preferences > Calendar, RSS and then assign the URL of “ICS iCalendar” to applications compatible with iCalendar such as Google Calendar and c2talk. Please note that stickies have to be assigned their due dates to be subscribed to using iCalendar.
You can also include stickies on favorite canvases and group canvases by checking the checkbox named “Include stickies with a due date in my calendar” at each canvas preferences.

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“Subscribe with Google Calendar” is not working properly.
Google Calendar gets lino calendar information once in a while. New stickies and edited stickies need some time to be modified on Google Calendar.

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Can I post images or articles of other web sites
on my canvas?

Yes. With the bookmarklet feature lino offers, you can post your favorite images or articles (texts) of other web sites on your canvas. Please visit Preferences > Bookmarklet.

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What is “Bookmarklet”?
lino bookmarklet is a function to be used to copy a title, URL, texts (need to be selected by dragging them) or image from other websites currently browsed on your computer to a canvas.

To use this feature, you have to first add lino bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark (favorites for IE7), and then follow the procedures as follows depending on your browser.

IE7: Right click first and click “favorites” from the menu displayed.
FireFox2: Right click first and click “bookmark this link” from the menu displayed.
Safari3: Directly drag and drop “lino it” to “Bookmark Bar.”

After adding lino bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark (favorites for IE7), visit a website which you wish to copy images, articles, and etc from, and then click lino bookmarklet added to your browser’s bookmark.
Please note that you have to first select texts by dragging when you try to copy texts, and then you can post them on a canvas by clicking lino bookmarklet.

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How can I show a canvas over another page?
While you’re browsing other sites, you can show your canvas over the page by clicking “lino anywhere” bookmarklet.

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How can I embed a canvas in my blog?
You can embed your canvas as you embed videos to your blog. Open the canvas you want to embed and click the information icon on Palette. Then, copy the HTML for embed lino, and paste it to your blog.

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About shortcut keys for sticky operations
“1”: Used to post the yellow stickies.
“2”: Used to post the green stickies.
“3”: Used to post the blue stickies.
“4”: Used to post the pink stickies.
“5”: Used to post the picture stickies (stickies dedicated to posting pictures on).
“6”: Used to post the video stickies (stickies dedicated to posting videos on).
“7”: Used to post the transparent stickies.

“m”: Highlight new stickies view
“n, j, [Right arrow key]”: Next
“p, k, [Left arrow key]”: Previous
“[Esc]”: Exit

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